The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-02-12
$4,000 DAMAGE SUIT
Brought Against the City OFF,
GERS of Dallas, by Lee
HerrOd.
A Relic of the Smallpox Quarantine.

Lee Herr0d, by name, claiming 10
be citizen of Tarrant county, brings
suit in the district court of that
county against John Henry Brown, as
mayer of the city of Dallas; w. T..
Parry, as secretary; J. l.. Carter, city
physician; NJ. NJ. Newsom, and the
city council at the time the quarantine
was established during the small pox
epidemic at Fort Worth. There are
three counts in the petition; $4,000
actual damages; $4,000 exemplary
damages; $4,000 exemplary damages
Herrod says that on the 23d day of
February, 1886, he purchased at Colo
RADIO City ticket for Southern
Texas, intending to go south
from Fort Worth, but that before ar
irving at the latter city he changed
his mind and concluded to go on to
Dallas, and he bought ticket TO Dal-
las aud continued his journey. At
Handley the train, he says, was
boarded by quarantine guards and he
was summarily elected from the train,
and that he was at great expense and
trouble in reaching his destination,
and he wants $4,000. just why Mr..
Herrod should proceed to state in his
petition that The quarantine was a
conspiracy on the part of the officers
of Dallas to do Fort Worth a great
commercial injury can be better ac-
counted for by interested parties in
Fort Worth.
Dallas people regard the thing as a
huge joke, aud it is one of Fort
Wosth's cheaA ways of advertising
herself.
A reporter accosted Mayor Brown
this morning, who said: mo, l have
not seen the dispatch from Fort
Worth published this morning, you
speak OF, but am not surprised, as |
suspected that some one was up to
something, from the circumstance VI
a gentleman coming here two or three
weeks ago all y making inquiry of the
names of city officers and certain or
dinances, and when my attention was
called to it | said to give him all the
information heide.ired.
al don't think they can take us to
Fort Worth to try the case, if it means
anything at all, and certainly if they
did v would take change of venue
from from that city that has such a
bad case of gaugreno prejudice against
Dallas. What protection has Dallas
or any other city, against epidemlcs
if they have not right to quarantine
against them ID such times as these IN
question? When health officer Swarm
gen visited Dallas, coming direct from
Fort Worth, during the excitement,
he justified me in my quarantine action
and said had done perfectly right,
but suggested that as things stood
then, system of inspection
might be substituted, which |
adopted at once, and the rigors of
the quarantine were withdrawn, and
DIR. Newsom wss placed so that all
trains were inspected, and parties who
came from Fort Worth, or who were
suspected of being inoculated, we're
turned back and furnished transporta-
ton on their return by The conductors
of the trains, SO that there was no
pecuniary loss. To denv that there
was smallpox in Fort Worth is too
absurd even 10 a Fort Worth man.
Mayor Smith. admitted at the time of
the quarantine that there was small
pox in Fort Worth; but, sir. I have all
the incidents and occurrences and
facts during those stirring times, and
will show them up when the time
comes"
Secretary Parry couldn't see where
he was a party to the suit; still,
he was ready for the battle. The quar-
mtinc was right. Iheard Health OH
Ger Swearingen tell Mayor Brown that
he had done right in issuing his proc
lamaiion of quarantine, and even if
Dallas had g pay $4,000 for pro-
tecting tho lives OF her people. he
would gladly pay-his share of the cost,